BANGOR, Maine — Police charged a Georgia man with drunken driving after the pickup truck he was in Monday night struck a utility pole on Odlin Road, knocking out power in the area and closing the roadway for more than 10 hours.

Cosby Henderson, 33, of Athens, Ga., drove his 2005 Ford pickup into the pole in front of the Ramada Inn at around 10:25 p.m. Monday and was trapped inside his truck for a short time, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Tuesday.

“It snapped the power line,” he said. “It was a mess. It looked worse than it was. They had to extricate him from the truck.”

Henderson, who is working in the area, was taken by ambulance to Eastern Maine Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Edwards didn’t have specifics about Henderson’s injuries but did say “he was up talking and gave a statement to the officer.”

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Officer Joshua Kuhn charged Henderson with operating under the influence while he was at the hospital. Henderson was not arrested.